Goodbye 2016 and Welcome to 2017…

In Blighty and the US 2016 was the year of the deplorables or populists or the self-described anti-establishment. Except they are not really all that popular and definitely not anti-establishment. The reactionary wing of the establishment have power in the US, but they will hopefully be constrained by a strong systemof checks and balances.

In the UK we have voted to remove an important balance to a Westminster system stuck in the early 20th century, and to hand power to the reactionary appeaser wing of the establishment.